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Daily Posts
Tuesday, 04.02.2020 – Why Companies Abandon The Development of New Antibiotics
Links of the day: Biopharma has abandoned antibiotic development. Here’s why we did, too. Recently, I wrote a piece arguing that pharma companies should be…
Sunday 02.02.2020 – How US Lawmakers Profited From the 2017 Tax Cuts
Link of the day: Republicans passed tax cuts — then profited Step 1: Own a lot of stocks and assetsStep 2: Reduce taxes on assets,…
Thursday, 30.01.2020 – Can Statisticians Forecast Better than A guy With A Pencil?
Link of the day: Delphi Epicast I am currently working on a master thesis that tries to predict cases of Ebola in Congo. The models…
Monday, 27.01.2020 – Focus on the Right Food to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint, Not on Eating Local Food
Link of the day: The effects of food choices on climate change The article gives a very interesting overview over what kind of food choices…
thursday, 23.01.2020 – Remote Internship at the Happier Live Institute
Link of the day: Remote Internship at the Happier Live institute The Happier Live Institute (HLI) is looking for someone to work on a research…
Monday, 20.01.2020 – How to Create Disruptive Research Teams
Link of the day: Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams A friend of mine, Stefan Torges, has written up a quite extensive summary of the…
Sunday, 19.01.2020 – Why Published Science May Systematically Underestimate the Effects of Climate Change
Link of the day: Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change Scientific publications may systematically underestimate the effects and the speed of climate…
Saturday, 18.01.2020 – Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics
Link of the day: SSC Journal Club – Relaxed beliefs under psychedelics and the anarchic brain Psychedelics are increasingly tested for therapeutic use. There are…
Friday, 17.01.2020 – What Can You (a Tech Person) Do About Climate Change?
Link of the day: What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change? On his homepage, Bret Victor points out a quite substantial and interesting numbers…